PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: 8 Women, Code, Animacy
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Joint action one that is carried out by an ensemble of people acting in coordination with one another: e. g. two people dancing paddling in a canoe, waltzing the joint action of two people doing individual steps. Taking turns: turn taking operates by 3 implicit rules. Current speaker is allowed to select the next speaker. Done by directing question to another person. Another person speaks up on ther own. Third states that the current speaker can continue, although not obligated to do so. Turn-yielding signal display of one or more behavioural cues that appear to indicate a willingness to conclude ones turn. Drawl on the final syllable or final stressed syllable of a final clause. Use of stereotyped expressions such as" you know", or soemthing", but uh". Completion of a grammatical clause: duncan found a relationship between the number of cues indicating yielding and the probability that a listener would attempt to take a turn.
